Here are 30 amazing Christmas play recipes that the kids will love! Including play dough, slime, goop, clay, and salt dough!
These 30 “hands-in” play recipes are great for working little fingers with all that pushing and squeezing, not to mention picking up small items to stick into the dough, hand-eye coordination for scooping the slime, and manual dexterity for decorating the clay!
Christmas Themed Play Dough
Christmas Play Dough – Invitation to Create from Craftulate
Pine Scented Dough for Woodsy Playland from My Small Potatoes
Sugar Cookie Play Dough from Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails
Orange Spice Christmas Play Dough from Nurture Store (pictured below)
Cinnamon Play Dough Cookies from The Imagination Tree
Sparkly Snowman Play Dough from The Connection We Share
Play Dough Christmas Trees from Fantastic Fun and Learning (pictured below)
Christmas Play Dough Recipe from Learn Play Imagine
Gingerbread Play Dough from The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle
Minty Candy Cane Scented Play Dough Ornaments from Learning 4 Kids
Play Dough Snowballs from How Wee Learn (pictured below)
Christmas Themed Goop and Slime
Christmas Slime from Craftulate (pictured below)
Candy Cane Goop from Home Grown Friends
Shivery Snow Slime from Growing a Jeweled Rose (pictured below)
Peppermint Tea Flubber from Gluten Free Frenzy
Candy Cane Goo-bleck from Sow Sprout Play (pictured below)
Christmas Themed Clay and Salt Dough
Salt Dough Snowman from Kids Activities Blog (pictured below)
Homemade Advent Wreath from Nurture Store
Candy Cane Clay from Growing a Jeweled Rose
Cinnamon Christmas Tree Ornaments from Golden Reflections Blog
Glittery Icicles from Fun Art 4 Kids
Gingerbread M&Ms Ornaments from Huppie Mama
Tree Decorations from Homemade Clay from Craftulate
Salt Dough Suncatchers from Home Grown Friends
Check out all the other fabulous posts in this Fine Motor Fridays Christmas Roundup Edition!
- Fine Motor Christmas Art Projects from LalyMom
- Christmas Sensory Bins for Fine Motor Skills from Stir the Wonder
- Christmas Tree Geoboard and 24 more Fine Motor Christmas Tree Activities from School Time Snippets
- Recycled Holiday Card Fine Motor Skills Tray and 10+ Preschool Skills Activities from Little Bins for Little Hands
- Snowflake Light Table Play and 14 Other Christmas and Winter Light Table Ideas from And Next Comes L
Tons of fun stuff! I included your Christmas slime in my post too!
Thanks so much for sharing my craft! ~Carrie (Huppie Mama)
Wow! How fun! This would entertain little one’s for hours! Pinning for future reference 😀
Mmmmm, all these play recipes smell delicious!! Such fun! This list will keep us busy; maybe we’ll make something today!!
Thanks for sharing my cinnamon Christmas tree ornament post!! I pinned it too! 🙂
Awesome list! Pinned! Thanks for including our Salt Dough Suncatchers!
Thanks so much for including one of our recipes. MUCH appreciation 🙂
Great list, George! So many wonderful recipes to try!
Great recipes. I love all the hands on play! Great sensory list!